![Water – 2](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/GulfofSuezHRT_BUSMT-cropped-1-470x140.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post is the second of four relating to water. The first in the series focused on personal washing arrangements. This second…
![Mental health – 1](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Asfurieh-cropped.png)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post is the first of two looking at the impact that the intense work and isolated living conditions at Arabah el-Madfunah…
![The team’s physical health – 1: Illness](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Vapex-cropped.png)
Author: Susan Biddle. This post looks at some of the illnesses, both minor and more serious, that afflicted the Abydos team, and how these were…
![Enjoying Marseille with Amice and Hugh Calverley, 4 October 1929](https://blog.griffith.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Count_of_Monte_Cristo_1913-detail.jpg)
Author: Susan Biddle. The last post described Myrtle’s voyage from the UK to Marseilles, via Gibraltar, in 1929. There she was joined by two more…